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Showing 16011610 of 42727 articles for Art. L. 145-37 et Art. L. 145-38

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Collective investments

Article L214-1

…g constitute undertakings for collective investment1° UCITS ;2° The FIAs mentioned in II of article L. 214-24.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Transfer of ownership

Article L211-19

…registration of the said financial security in an account, the intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3 shall draw up a nominative reference form. This statement shall indicate the details identi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Pledging of securities accounts and securities

Article L211-20

I. - The pledge of a securities account is constituted, both between the parties and in relation to the issuing legal entity and third parties, by a declaration signed by the account holder. This decl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employee profit-sharing and incentive schemes

Article L212-13

The rules governing employee profit-sharing are set out in Chapter I of Title IV of Book IV of the French Labour Code.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Capital increases

Article L212-15

…arry out capital increases by issuing shares reserved for employees under the terms and conditions set out either in Articles L. 225-187 to L. 225-197 of the French Commercial Code or in Articles L. 3…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Negotiable debt securities

Article L213-2

…debt securities are recorded in a securities account held by an intermediary referred to in article L. 211-3 or in a shared electronic recording system referred to in the same article.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bonds issued by associations.

Article L213-9

Contracts for the issue of the bonds referred to in article L. 213-8 may stipulate that they are redeemable only at the issuer's initiative or at a maturity conditional on the accumulation, since the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Pension

Article L211-31

The assignee's remuneration, in whatever form, constitutes income from a debt. For accounting purposes, it is treated as interest.When the term of the repurchase agreement covers the date of payment o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Set-off and assignment of claims

Article L211-36

…ial obligations arising from transactions in financial instruments or in units mentioned in article L. 229-7 of the Environment Code, spot foreign exchange transactions or transactions for the sale, p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Preference shares

Article L212-5

The rules governing the creation of preference shares are set out in Articles L. 228-11 to L. 228-20 of the French Commercial Code.

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